That's great to know that your issue has been resolved. I'll move this thread to discussion for now.    Thanks,  Shivani  ... View more

Same. If I do a 'save and close' on document in PS and want to do something in Bridge for instance, PS comes to the front when the document closes. Bloody annoying. ... View more

I am surprised this got through Beta testing and into a public release ... View more

When you open a file it's set to "Colors", but if you click a single channel and then go back to RGB, it reverts to "RGB" mode and stays there. Nifty!  I hadn’t noticed that.  And as selecting the Red Channel and the Composite Channel can be recorded in an Action one should be able to assign such an Action to the Open Event with Script Events Manager.  ... View more

Does anyone know how to pass a parameter when we do that suspendHistory?   app.activeDocument.suspendHistory(localize(locCreateCustomFrameDialog), 'createCustomFrameDialogMain.Main(createCustomFrame)');   this return evalScript error. Tried a couple other method like adding 'createCustomFrame' but that will not work.   This also causes evalScript error app.activeDocument.suspendHistory(localize(locCreateCustomFrameDialog), "createCustomFrameDialogMain('"+createCustomFrame+"')"); ... View more

This issue should be fixed in Photoshop 2023 (v24.x) that was released today. ... View more

Thank you to all for explaining what this is ... View more

I have been having this issue for a long time, even with the latest version of Photoshop and MAC OS still never got it fixed ... View more

@alexanderb84827006    It is mentioned in various Adobe files, such as the Photoshop JavaScript Reference PDF:     However, I agree that one does have to look hard for such info!   Also: https://theiviaxx.github.io/photoshop-docs/Photoshop/Application/charIDToTypeID.html?highlight=charid   ... View more

"I have tried to re-create this but unable to do it. Does anyone know how to ?"   If you really, really need exactly same action step (I can not imagine the reason) but you can not recreate it then Alt + drag action step to duplicate it then move it anywhere in the same or some other action. ... View more

Hmm I'm not seeing any difference with the Fade command between versions. It's never updated realtime as you slide the opacity slider, it only updates when the cursor stops moving. I agree it could be smoother overall. ... View more

Others have reported that when their NAS is configured to "sleep" after periods of not being used, when they start LR, the NAS takes a while waking up, but by the time it does, LR has already decided the NAS is offline and thus "missing".     Before starting LR, used Finder to navigate among a few folders on the NAS to force it to wake up. Then start LR.   ... View more

I added missing closing curly brace to your previous. ... View more

Hi @jduchow , let's see if we can get this figured out.   First of all, Preset Syncing is available on Windows 10 machines, but not yet on Windows ARM machines. Are you on an ARM machine? We plan to enable it on ARM in a release later this summer.    You mention that you do in fact see the CCLibrary process running when you open Task Manager. If so, please open the Creative Cloud app and go to Help > About Creative Cloud. Scroll to the bottom - which version of CC Library does it say you are running?   Assuming that the CCLibrary process is up-to-date (3.12.11-1) and the process is running, I would expect that a relaunch of Photoshop should allow the Preset Sync checkbox to show up in Preferences > General. ... View more

Thank You, after doing what you suggested, all appears to be working again. I shall try it more tomorrow Ian ... View more

You could use the Eydropper tool, and set the second readout in the Info panel to Grayscale with a large sample size, like 31x31. ... View more

Yeah i though you meant the body text, atleast i was thinking you meant that. The title bar normally is a bit harder to do. Since it also shows different on the 2 OS's, that makes it even worse. Th ewindows ScriptUI looks horrible man. I got a Windows machine since a couple weeks and im banging my head sometimes. Last time i worked with Windows was 17 years back, as if nothing changed, still looks like crap 😞   Well in your example code, i thought you coded that actaully, the title is also a variable.  But titles cant be edit that much. With a regular dialog Photoshop Mac doesnt get titles i believe. thats why this custom dialog is nice. Concerning the Title, there isnt really much we cn do i believe. Its kinda crappy how everything looks in Windows so this fits right in 😉 hahaha no joke aside. I dont think we can make it centered like on OSX. EDIT tried find and see on page 79 Titles cant be changed. Im not sure what we can do on OSX though ... View more

Impressive. Almost 2 years on, and NO IMPROVEMENT. Thanks Adobe Engineering, really appreciate all the 'new features' added to Photoshop, while the bugs remain. Print preview had no issues for years, maybe even a decade. Now its broken and nobody wants to fix it. Really feeling like I'm getting value for my $675 a year I now spend on CC.  ... View more

The first code is missing a parenthesis. In what was before - too.     ... View more

w.active = true;   I see this more commonly on the Mac, where a new window doesn't have focus. ... View more

Hi @ian-barber, maybe a bit awkward, but how about with something like that (depends on your layer structure and workflow)? Canvas_Bigger (); function Canvas_Bigger() { var srcDoc = app.activeDocument; var nme = srcDoc.layers[srcDoc.layers.length-1].name; if (nme != "Big Canvas") { // get original width and height var w = srcDoc.width.value; var h = srcDoc.height.value; // Increase canvas size + 211 pixels to the right // with the anchor in the top left srcDoc.resizeCanvas(w /*+211*/, h, AnchorPosition.TOPLEFT); srcDoc.layers[srcDoc.layers.length-1].name = "Big Canvas"; //alert ("Canvas was changed"); } else { //alert ("Script was already used"); } }   Rename (for example) your background layer in the first run and check for the name. ... View more

To process all layers names with DOM code you would need to use recursion. In that Process you could break when you find the first layer with the name or continue the process counting the number of layer or creating an array of layers with the name. A count of 0 = not found . The Action manage code is select layer Name.  Which will  select the layer with the name closest to the bottom of the layer stack.  If there no such layer the Active layer would  not be changed from what it was.    There are some differences between Action manager Layer kinds and  DOM Layer Kind.   For example all shape layers are fill layers  but all fill layers are not shape layers.   DOM has no Layer Kind Shape where Action Manager has a Shape kind.    Many Scripts need to use some action manager code to script some thing Adobe DOM does not cover all of Photoshop  features.   Here is a LayerStack.jsx that views layers from both kind of view don't try the script on a document with more the 20 layers. // 2019, use it at your own risk; //Action Manager layerKind seems to be like this. var Doclayerkind = [ "Pixel", "Adjustment", "Text", "Shape", "Smartobject", "6", "Layerset", "3Dlayer", "Gradientfill", "Patternfill", "Colorfill", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24" ] var theLayers = collectLayers (); alert("Layer Stack Height " + theLayers.length + "\n" + theLayers.join("\n") ); ////// collect layers ////// function collectLayers () { // the file; var myDocument = app.activeDocument; // get number of layers; var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Dcmn"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); var applicationDesc = executeActionGet(ref); var theNumber = applicationDesc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("numberOfLayers")); // process the layers; var theLayers = new Array; for (var m = 0; m <= theNumber; m++) { try { var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putIndex( charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " ), m); var layerDesc = executeActionGet(ref); //alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); //if (m==1) alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); var layerSet = typeIDToStringID(layerDesc.getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID("layerSection"))); var isBackground = layerDesc.getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("background")); // if group collect values; //if (layerSet != "layerSectionEnd" && layerSet != "layerSectionStart" ) { //if (layerSet != "layerSectionEnd" && layerSet != "layerSectionStart" && isBackground != true) { var theName = layerDesc.getString(stringIDToTypeID('name')); var theKind = layerDesc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID('layerKind')); var theID = layerDesc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID('layerID')); var theBounds = layerDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("bounds")); var theseBounds = [theBounds.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("left")), theBounds.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("top")), theBounds.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("right")), theBounds.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("bottom"))]; layer = get_layer_by_id(theID); var theBlend = layer.blendMode; var theOpacity = layer.opacity; var theVisible = layer.visible; var theType = layer.typename; var theParent = layer.parent; if (layer!=null) {theRealkind = layer.kind;} else {theRealkind = "";} if (theRealkind==undefined) {theRealkind = "LayerKind.UNDEFINED"} // Action Manager layerKnd Shape //alert(Doclayerkind[theKind-1]); if (Doclayerkind[theKind-1]=="Shape") { //alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); var theFill= layerDesc.getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("fillEnabled")); var theStrokewidth=""; var theStrokenabled=false; try { var theStrokewidth = layerDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("AGMStrokeStyleInfo")).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("strokeStyleLineWidth")); var theStrokenabled = layerDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("AGMStrokeStyleInfo")).getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("strokeEnabled")); } //catch(e) {alert(e + ': on line ' + e.line, 'Script Error', true); } catch(e) { } theLayers.push([theName, "ID " + theID, Doclayerkind[theKind-1], theType, theParent, theBlend, "Opacity " + theOpacity, "Visible " + theVisible, "Bounds " + theseBounds, "stroke " + theStrokewidth + " " + theStrokenabled, "fill " + theFill, theRealkind]); } // Action Manager layerKind Adjustments else if (Doclayerkind[theKind-1]=="Adjustment") { //alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); theLayers.push([theName, "ID " + theID, Doclayerkind[theKind-1], theType, theParent, theBlend, "Opacity " + theOpacity, "Visible " + theVisible, "Bounds " + theseBounds, theRealkind]); } // Action Manager layerKind Smartobjects else if (Doclayerkind[theKind-1]=="Smartobject") { //alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); // get Smart Object info //alert(obj_to_str(layer)); /* alert(["allLocke " + layer.allLocked, "\nblendMode " + layer.blendMode, "\nbound " + layer.bounds, "\nboundsNoEffect " + layer.boundsNoEffects, "\nid " + layer.id, "\nitemIndex " + layer.itemIndex, "\nlinkedLayer " + layer.linkedLayers, "\nname " + layer.name, "\nopacity " + layer.opacity, "\nparent " + layer.parent, "\ntypename " + layer.typename, "\nvisible " + layer.visible, "\nxmpMetadata " + layer.xmpMetadata]); */ theLayers.push([theName, "ID " + theID, Doclayerkind[theKind-1], theType, theParent, theBlend, "Opacity " + theOpacity, "Visible " + theVisible, "Bounds " + theseBounds, theRealkind]); } // Action Manager layerKind Text else if (Doclayerkind[theKind-1]=="Text") { //alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); // get text info //alert(obj_to_str(layer)); /* alert(["allLocke " + layer.allLocked, "\nblendMode " + layer.blendMode, "\nbound " + layer.bounds, "\nboundsNoEffect " + layer.boundsNoEffects, "\nid " + layer.id, "\nitemIndex " + layer.itemIndex, "\nlinkedLayer " + layer.linkedLayers, "\nname " + layer.name, "\nopacity " + layer.opacity, "\nparent " + layer.parent, "\ntypename " + layer.typename, "\nvisible " + layer.visible, "\nxmpMetadata " + layer.xmpMetadata, "\nkind " + layer.kind, "\ncolor " + layer.textItem.color, "\ntextkind " + layer.textItem.kind, "\nfont " + layer.textItem.font, "\nblend " + layer.blendMode, "\nantiAliasMethod " + layer.textItem.antiAliasMethod, "\nsize " + layer.textItem.size, "\nposition " + layer.textItem.position, "\ncontents " + layer.textItem.contents, ]); */ theLayers.push([theName, "ID " + theID, Doclayerkind[theKind-1], theType, theParent, theBlend, "Opacity " + theOpacity, "Visible " + theVisible, "Bounds " + theseBounds, layer.textItem.font, layer.textItem.size, theRealkind ]); } // Action Manager layerKind Pixel // Action Manager layerKind Layerset // Action Manager layerKind Gradientfill // Action Manager layerKind Patternfill // Action Manager layerKind Colorfill // Action Manager layerKind other else { //alert(theName + "," + Doclayerkind[theKind-1]); //alert(actionDescriptor(layerDesc)); theLayers.push([theName, "ID " + theID, Doclayerkind[theKind-1], theType, theParent, theBlend, "Opacity " + theOpacity, "Visible " + theVisible, "Bounds " + theseBounds, theRealkind]); } //}; } catch (e) {}; }; return theLayers }; // DOM Layer items function layerInfo(layer) { alert("LayerName='" + layer.name + "'" + "\nLayerID='" + layer.id + "'" + "\nLayerKind='" + layer.kind + "'" + "\nallLocked='" + layer.allLocked + "'" + "\nblendMode='" + layer.blendMode + "'" + "\nbounds='" + layer.bounds + "'" + "\nboundsNoEffects='" + layer.boundsNoEffects + "'" + "\nitemIndex='" + layer.itemIndex + "'" + "\nlinkedLayers='" + layer.linkedLayers + "'" + "\nopacity='" + layer.opacity + "'" + "\nparent='" + layer.parent + "'" + "\ntypename='" + layer.typename + "'" + "\nvisible='" + layer.visible + "'" + "\nxmpMetadata='" + layer.xmpMetadata + "'" ); } // Thanks to SuperMerlin /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// function actionDescriptor(desc){ if(desc.typename == 'ActionDescriptor'){ var c = desc.count; var msg= "Action Descriptor Item Count = " + c; for(var i=0;i<c;i++){ //enumerate descriptor's keys //$.writeln('AD '+zeroPad( i+1, 2 )+' = '+IDTz(desc.getKey(i)) +' : '+desc.getType(desc.getKey(i))); msg = msg + "\n" + 'AD '+zeroPad( i+1, 2 )+' = '+IDTz(desc.getKey(i)) +' : '+desc.getType(desc.getKey(i)) ; } return msg; } function IDTz(id){ try { var res = typeIDToStringID( id ); if(res == '' ){ var res = typeIDToCharID( id ); } } catch(e){} return res; } function zTID( s ){ if( s.length == 4 ) var res = charIDToTypeID( s ); if( s.length > 4 ) var res = stringIDToTypeID( s ); return res; } function zeroPad(num,pad) { var z = Math.pow(10,Number(pad)) return num <= z ? ((Number( num) + z).toString().substr(1)): num } }; //Thanks to r-bin function obj_to_str(obj){var str = ""; for (var p in obj) if(obj.hasOwnProperty(p))try{str+=p+"::"+obj[p]+"\n";}catch(e){};return str;} // Thanks to function get_layer_by_id(id, doc_id) { try { var doc; if (doc_id == undefined) doc = activeDocument; else { for (var i = 0; i < documents.length; i++) { if (documents[i].id == doc_id) { doc = documents[i]; break; } } } if (doc == undefined) { alert("Bad document " + doc_id); return null; } var r = new ActionReference(); r.putProperty(charIDToTypeID("Prpr"), stringIDToTypeID("json")); if (doc_id == undefined) r.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID("Dcmn"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt")); else r.putIdentifier(charIDToTypeID("Dcmn"), doc_id); eval("var json = " + executeActionGet(r).getString(stringIDToTypeID("json"))); if (json == undefined) return null; var set = new Array(); function search_id(layers, id) { for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) { if (layers[i].id == id) { set.push(i); return true; } } for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) { if (layers[i].layers) { if (search_id(layers[i].layers, id)) { set.push(i); return true; } } } } if (search_id(json.layers, id)) { var ret = doc.layers; for (var i = set.length-1; i > 0; i--) { ret = ret[set[i]].layers;} return ret[set[0]]; } return null; } catch (e) { alert(e); } }   ... 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I found that even after disabling App Nap for ExtendScript Toolkit, the software would still hang. Looking at Activity Monitor I noticed that Illustrator (in my use case) was being set to nap while I was using developing in ESTK. macOS Mojave didn't give me the option to disable App Nap for Illustrator, so I tried disabling App Nap globally (see instructions here: https://www.lifewire.com/control-how-mac-applications-use-app-nap-2260788). After a system reboot I've not had any disruption yet - ESTK is running much more smoothly than before. Perhaps you could disalble App Nap for Photoshop or globally? Especially if ESTK is relying on an active connection with the Photoshop or other software during script development, as the other napping software may be impacting on ESTK performance. ... View more

Interesting, I never actually thought about that but you maybe right. ... View more